Liberia: Former Girl Rebel Tells Ordeal

24 October 2008
The NEWS (Monrovia)

The Hague — A former member of the Small Girl Unit of the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) has testified in the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor on how civilians, among them children, were trained and used as attendants by rebel commanders.

Edna Bangura told the court that in April 1994 three RUF rebels raped her when she was 10 years old as the rebels attacked the northern town of Masingbi, in Tonkolili District.

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